Not the issue.... Texas buys more books, in bulk, than any other customer. So most school districts follow what Texas does in order to get text books cheaper. So when it comes to textbooks, where Texas leads, the country follows. Not everywhere, but in enough places that stories like this are far more scary than they appear.

netizencain:Well, think about this... in just a few years these kids will be voting. Voting for things like funding science, medicine, et al. Congratulations Texas; you're farking up our society.

Godammitsomuch. I swear not all of us are science-illiterate 'tards. I really hope this is the last gasp of conservative fogeys before millenials and latinos eventually turn our state purple, then blue.

netizencain:MaudlinMutantMollusk: ManateeGag: how are these children going to exist in the real world?

As long as they stay in Texas they're golden

Not the issue.... Texas buys more books, in bulk, than any other customer. So most school districts follow what Texas does in order to get text books cheaper. So when it comes to textbooks, where Texas leads, the country follows. Not everywhere, but in enough places that stories like this are far more scary than they appear.

Civilized places will reject books with such non-sense. Or at least skip over those chapters. I am sure that there are groups out there that would love to supply textbooks for free to school children. But such books would be unsuitable for an education.

There's one stretch of highway where we have a running game of measuring the CPM (churches per mile). It's pretty sparsely populated, with maybe only a handful of homes between each of these bastions of intellectual growth, so I gotta wonder about the economics. But it's absolutely impossible to underestimate the money available simply by repeating the same ... er.. "content" over and over.

You can go to college for six years, be in massive debt when you get out, and hope to make $160k in 5-10 years in science, 8 years and hope for $200k as a GP, or just tell people what they want to hear, and the sky is the limit.

EvilEgg:netizencain: MaudlinMutantMollusk: ManateeGag: how are these children going to exist in the real world?

As long as they stay in Texas they're golden

Not the issue.... Texas buys more books, in bulk, than any other customer. So most school districts follow what Texas does in order to get text books cheaper. So when it comes to textbooks, where Texas leads, the country follows. Not everywhere, but in enough places that stories like this are far more scary than they appear.

Civilized places will reject books with such non-sense. Or at least skip over those chapters. I am sure that there are groups out there that would love to supply textbooks for free to school children. But such books would be unsuitable for an education.

This country has a majority of people rejecting evolution and instead embracing some form of creationism, so it's not a safe bet.

Thankfully, any book with this in it would be rejected out of hand by the State of Oregon.

"Schools may teach about explanations of life on earth, including religious ones (such as "creationism"), in comparative religion or social studies classes. In science class, however, they may present only genuinely scientific critiques of, or evidence for, any explanation of life on earth, but not religious critiques (beliefs unverifiable by scientific methodology). Schools may not refuse to teach evolutionary theory in order to avoid giving offense to religion nor may they circumvent these rules by labeling as science an article of religious faith. Public schools must not teach as scientific fact or theory any religious doctrine, including "creationism," although any genuinely scientific evidence for or against any explanation of life may be taught. Just as they may neither advance nor inhibit any religious doctrine, teachers should not ridicule, for example, a student's religious explanation for life on earth."

Proponents should only be able to use creation science in their family the adults' medical treatments.

I understand your point but the adults who control the situation are supposed to know better. There's no reason to make it worse for the kids who are already getting the short end of the stick by having nutbar parents.

(Hypothetically, anyway, since your idea and my suggestion are unlikely to occur.)

I used to be read the "Those crazy libs hate God" stories in the news and side with the Flanders's of the world, because I thought they wouldn't do stupid shiat like this.

Now I think that Freedom From Religion outfit needs a donation. Stupid farking Churchy McJesus assholes need to keep their (my) beliefs out of schools. Schools are not the venues to preach faith over science, even if some portion of the science is incomplete or going through an evolution.

Can universities revoke degrees after they've been granted? Because the person mentioned in TFA that has a PhD in molecular biology that is pushing creationism needs theirs taken away. No PhD, no professor job.